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- ry. .* ^ lUUMW., W Jl *1 T dispensers are being bought by sales- promises for the future. I have noth- men. If they used the State’s four ing to do with the dispensary, and as brands you could see at once that all an honest man couldn’t make any whiskey would bo as much alike as promises. black eyed peas, and it would prevent ^j r Hickson: Call what you said a any local dispenser Irom being cor- suggestion of improvement by better rupted. ^ou go into a dispensary and en f 0 rcement and by amendment. We you will find filt> brands of whiskey. are ( j ea ij n{ r w jth the thing as it is Some the dispenser will PJ ls l l 'l ls and has been. It has been tried and getting a commission. We can s«.op p rove< i a mos t egregious failure from that. I have pouted out how it should every standpoint, and we want no be done. We can stop any rebates or more of it but su , )ose we were to commissions to any State board of agree to try the thing again, what control, who will make an annual con- groun(I , iave we to h( e , t ooul(1 ever tract to order it out as they need it 1)e made bc , tter or better enforced’ and having nothing more than the And( , )y the way> before ri , consent four Xs If the board cannot sen to that Mr Ti , lman will have to , out an individual brand, and aM , promise me to resign his seat in the whiskey sold, as Xs it-would be im-1 rnitod States Senate and come down, posible for the local dispenser to push a certain brand. If the money from the dispensary comes, I think it is just as clean as any money. I differ with some people, still I have my opinion. I believe the State dispensa ry can be put under such control as will inspire confidence in the honesty of its administration. We have the right to govern ourselves and we will give ourselves just as good govern ment as we have sense enough to do. You are highest of all political power in South Carolina, and if you don’t choose good, clean men you are re sponsible and the blame is on you. Now I want to apologize for having trespassed so long, but it is a great subject. It is one which cannot be discussed lightly or flippantly, but fairly and squarely, cleanly and truthfully, and if I have given you any light I am glad of it. Voice: What about the beer dis pensaries? * Senator Tillman: I have never seen any law for them, for a beer dis pensary. I never had any beer dis pensary when I controlled it. I do not see any law for running beer dis pensaries as they do. Any other questions? I may have left out some thing. Mr. Otts: If you reduce the price of liquor one-half would that not re duce the profits? Senator Tillman: I told you I did n’t advocate the dispensary system for the money in it, and I knew that if the State took the monopoly of it the State would make money and make its people more sober, too. That is why I advocated it. But here, I have got to let this minister (Rev. F. C. Hickson, Baptist minister) talk. I will say, if you sell liquor at cost It will be two quarts instead of one quart for a dollar and that much more drinking and drunkenness for the money. The use of the request books which have been allowed to fall into disuse by the State hoard is a very impor tant part of the dispensary machin ery. They serve as a check to pre vent the dispenser from selling liquor to persons who cannot lawfully buy it—habitual drunkards, minors, etc., and they also prevent the sale of re filled bottles. Every package shipped to a local dispenser must be account ed for to the inspectors, and if sales have been made to any person with out his having signed the request, the dispenser is liable under the law to dismissal. It is astonishing that the grand juries in the various counties have taken no note of this palpable disobedience of the law. And it is equally astounding that the State board has allowed it. They have unscrewed the thing from one end to the other and mighty near turned it loose. In some coun ties they have request books and in others they have not. I thank you, fellow citizens, for your courtesies. If I have done you any harm 1 am sorry. F. C. Hickson: I hope you all will not go. Senator Tillman: I hope you will stay. I gave it to him and let him give it to me. Mr. Hickson: I do not know of any set of honest men who are willing to handle liquor. I dont’ believe these men can be found, as he said, “You take things as they are and not as you wish.’’ I have found as a matter of fact that the very best people In South Carolina are not willing to engage in the whiskey business. (Reference made by Mr. Hickson to the buying of 13,000,000 worth of whiskey). Senator Tillman: If the people want to buy $3,000,000 worth of whiskey how are you going to keep them from buying it? (Remark made by Mr. Hickson in sinuating that an honest man could not be found outside the ranks of the prohibitionists who was willing to take the Job as commissioner). Senator Tillman: Is not that as suming a great deal of authority and morality for you to say that outside of your ranks of prohibitionists there is no man who is honest enough to hold the Job of commissioner? Mr. Hickson’s Reply. I don’t appear here as a champion debater. I didn’t want Mr. Tillman to come here on this occasion because I knew he would get on my toes, and that then he and I would have it. It has happened as I feared and so I am here to reply. It is very difficult to debate with Mr. Tillman, to not he personal, because he Injects his per sonality into nearly everything he says. If I become personal today he is to blame and must excuse me. Whatever Mr. Tillman’s motive was in coming here there Is no doubt hut that those who invited him did so not for his argument but for his personal influence. And it is Just that personal influence with the masses of our peo ple that we object to having thrust in to this campaign. His argument we don’t mind at all. He hasn’t made a point that has not been made all over this county and is well known to every voter in It. Mr. Tillman may not have intended It, but he did, nev ertheless, stir considerably that old factional feeling which has nearly died in this section and which we don’t want here any more. I shall not he able to make a com plete reply to all the Senator said. It would take too long and you all are too tired. Just because It Is freshest In our minds I will begin at the end of his speech and go back towards the first as far as I can. Mr. Tillman has taken considerable time in (mint ing out what the dispensary ought to be. He promised us a great deal once before as to what the dispensary would do. We don’t propose to take any more promises. Mr. Tillman: I didn’t make any to Columbia and take the job of dis pensary crack stopper, and I’ll venture that will be the hardest job he can undertake. But even then it must always prove a failure. Mr. Tillman ought to have known that from the first. In liis remarks about prohibi tionists he called them idealistic star gazers, and represented himself as sensible and practical, looking where he walked. Now of all the star gazing I have ever known the dispensary, as Mr. Tillman framed it, leads the list. Take for instance the conditions under which the dispenser is to sell. He must require the purchaser to sign his name to the application for sale; that purchaser must be knowm to the dispenser, to be twenty- one years of age, not at that time un der the influence of liquor, and not addicted at any time to getting drunk. If you are not going to let the child ren have any, and you are not going to sell to the people who drink, in the name of sense to whom are you going to sell? There are no others \nio want it. Mr. Tillman and myself and our class dont’ want it. Those who do want it can get it. There’s star gaz ing for you. Another star gazing feature is the amount of confidence placed in the people who handle so large amounts of money. Here’s a man in Columbia who is to do the buying and selling of nearly $3,000,- 000 worth of liquor in one year; here are dispensers all over the State who are to handle from $10,000 to $20,000 worth of liquor. They give bonds It is true, but their bonds are absolutely no guarantee of their honesty and is absolutely no aid towards detecting their dishonesty. If the man wants to buy or sell at one price and enter an other in his books and pocket the diff erence there is no way provided and no possible way to be provided for detecting him. (Merchants have de vised every conceivable means for detecting dishonest clerks, and yet every one of them knows he is at the mercy of any of them who chooses to steal). And yet this sensible man who looks where he walks, proposes that millions of money shall pass through the hands of men scattered throughout the State, with no man nor device to watch them, to trust en tirely to their honor to handle all this money and expects no fraud, and that, too, when the class of men avail able for this business is not the best. The best people will not handle liquor and no one but a star gazer would propose to them to do so. (Mr. Tillman interrupted to say (hat that was a reflection on the treasurers and auditors of the entire State and tantamount to charging that there were no honest people out side of the prohibition ranks), Mr. Hickson: There is a big diff erence between the character of men who will accept the office of treas urer and the man who will consent to become a whiskey vender. Mr. Tillman himself, with all his zeal for his dispensary, would not consent to be a dispenser. Mr. Tillman has said to me, that he believed in and had great respect for Christianity, Christian churches and Christian people, but had great con tempt for hypocrites in the churches men who joined the church but would not live a Christian life. And yet every time a moral Issue has been raised in the politics of this State he has lined up with the hypocrites. Mr. Tillman: I deny the charge. You can’t prove It. Mr. Hickson: Sit down and I will prove It- The best people in our churches do not drink liquor. They regard it a sin to drink. The old slack, twisted member, whose life is a reproach to the church is the one who drinks and whines out, "It’s no harm to take a little for your stom ach’s sake,” and that when there is nothing the matter with his stom ach, and now when Mr. Tillman comes to take his stand on the whis key question he steps right over there with the old hypocrite and craves a little for his stomach’s sake and talks about the Bible’s not being opposed trt whiskey drinking. Mr. Tillman: He calls everybody buf prohibitionists hypocrites. Mr. Hickson: The record which South Carolina has made for lawless ness and crime under the dispensary regime Is enough to condemq It with all patriotic and law-abldng people. The record for murder and all crimes 1'as never been darke" during any even in the days of radical rule when Scott and Moses and Chamberlain /ere governors, and when barrooms wore at every cross road and the pas sions of the negroes were unre strained by law. Lynehings and mob law have grown to such an extent that all good people stand aghast All the Judges of the United States agree that it is their observation that from three-quarters to nine-tenths of the crimes for which people are tried In the courts have their source In liquor. Last year South Carolina furnished her people through the dis pensary nearly $3,000,000 worth of I quor and reaped a harvest, of 422 trials for murder and a perfect block- ing of the courts with trials for baser crimes This year bids fair to beat Z™. ^ South Carolina is m\ y aml there >« .elllm what will happen next. There is no Xe h,,e KO, ' <! " ''" r Mr. Tillman said, in sneaklmr of prohibition Idealists. that “"kh! statesmanship in framing legislation would make laws adapted not h, an gels hut to men possessed of evil ar>- petltes and passions. if men w?re without evil appetites prohibition might succeed, but as men had these evil appetites they woujjj gra ,, fy T « tjlapenaary adapted itself to this situation and provided whis key for them. Why did he not apply this principle in the case of other evil appetites? Wo can never hope to stop murder as long as there is mur der in the heart of any individual. The same thing is true of stealing and adultery and all other evil do ings. We do not compromise with these, and say one may do them un der certain circumstances. We pro hibit them absolutely and impose a penalty upon those who do them. The trouble with Mr. Tillman is that lie has not come up to a high enough standard to see that making and sell ing and drinking liquor are them selves crimes as well as breeders of crimes. It is likely that the compro mise he made when he inaugurated the dispensary was not made neces sary by the low state of public mor als, but by his own inability to appre ciate spiritual forces. It was a com promise with himself, although he may have been entirely unconscious of it. Mr. Tillman is not alone in this. Even the churches in their standard of discipline, in that they exclude members for drunkenness and not for whiskey drinking, prove that they have not come to the ’high ground of seeing that to drink liquor is a sin. Mr. Benson’s declaration that the churches do not turn people out because they drink liquor but be cause they can’t stand it, illustrated and proved by the case of an old dea con who reported and had excluded a young man who got drunk, although the young man possibly took only a wineglass full and that for once, while the old deacon took possibly a quart every day, has application in most of the churches of today. (While Mr. Hickson was discussing this feature of the case, Mr. Tillman had to leave in order to make his train, and the discussion stopped, just exactly where, we can’t tell. I educated at that rate? Ah! but you don’t take the poor drunkard and his poon.. - child into consideration at all. tie is the raw material which the fac tory uses to produce for others’ good. Would you insult me, Senator Till man, by asking me to receive the profits of such a mill as that? And yet for your comfort I will say I heard of a man in Cherokee county who was so heartless as to say, “Let the dis pensary run and thus make the fools that drink liquor pay our taxes.” But the fact remains, says the Sen ator, if you close the dispensary you will have to increase your tax levy over a mill on the dollar. Very well, let us keep that $100,000 at home and we can levy enough mills to build roads and bridges and better school houses. “But,” says the Senator, "the people wdll spend that $100,000 for liquor anyhow if you have prohibition.” That ! is simply begging the question and not proving it. I can take $500 and enforce a good prohibitory law so rig idly that our people won’t spend $1,000 for liquor in a year. Next week I want to prove that it is easier to enforce a prohibitory law : than it is to enforce the dispensary ; law. F. C. Hickson. Ignorance and poverty, which are the woes infM^tH so often upon the inno cent a >1 helpless. Would it not be good policy if noth ing elsi' to try to save to the people the ninety per cent, even if we suffer the loss of the ten per cent? The question must be solved by men of good judgment and reason. The op- IKtrtunity is offered on the day of the general election. W. S. Hall. Jr. Gaffney, S. C., Oct. 25, 1904. Mr Editor:—I desire, with your permission, to finish through your paper a portion of what I would have said in reply to Senator Tillman last Saturday. As to the Dispensary Profits. On this point the Senator made three points. 1. That it was never his design to make profit out of the jKflv Sa t ry ’ « a,mln S Primarily and chiefly to effect through it curtail ment of the liquor evil and thus aid temperance. 2. In enumerating the good P°lnts of the dispensary he men- took the profit feature f tl ^ e J whiske y business, there be ing no inducement to any one con nected with It to push sales. 3. Af ter having made these two points he seemingly forgot and made his most effective appeal for the dispensary on the ground of the revenue which it mH U ff h lh t0 the count y- a8k 'ng our peo- Ji® f K - ,hey were Prepared to surren- n r and put thelr bands n *s POCket8 and I,ay the money :? run . th , e county government and the schools. He had even procured a statement of the total amount re ceived by this county from the dis- $5 119 r i7 nan 1 ! 8 araount included ! ’ oi 17 , paid to the tow ns Of Gaffney and Blacksburg; $5,119.17 paid toward ordirmrjr county expenses; $4 374 34 paid to the public schools—enough money he said to run all the schools in the county one month (In which he Tory " ‘'tJr!;, the hi^ t°r y of the dispensary, and esnee- ially of the Senator’s appeal on the ground of dispensary profits, I deem unnecessary to say anything in re ply to points one and two. Every one in South Carolina knows that somehow, there has been very great hu acemene to everybody connfcted ivith the dispensary to increase the this 8 v 0 e f rv n thi Pr0fl h t8 0D ,lq,,0r ’ and that n , f y thing has defeated entirely pensa^v a T* 108 ® t0 make the ,lis ' the^ y temperance measure. fn the Kt^te T 8 as much Iiquor »old svstem o Ut " ° ne year under any system as was sold last year by the dispensary. As to his third .point it seems passing strange that any one occupying the high moral ground °he Senator claims to occupy should urge drini P n° P,e to continue to sell and drink liquor because it paid to do so t 8ee ms still more strange that anv one of his intelligence should give us so mfle° nS.r kCe C ° Unty c redU for ?ere maklni ! e “ Ce aS t0 8Uppose we dispenSv m ° ney ° Ut of the »H p & t Z‘) t XV- fhl^rr' ’f 0 " 11 “ l0aSt ** 0# . 00, > OUt Of 0?- “ed ’wb.r,'! S?r e “• re ci.iveq. \v hat it did give us matio nn Pter 8t T* er ’ Wl8er ° r better ’ or bap- wouid w,n a « re e that we would have been better off today If we ha i°! 8Pending * 100 - 000 for liquor! have* d^uni!™!h* ,? at monoy and , drunk the liquor at all Therf* L? .. ^ Wh ° 8pent his money for hat liquor who will not say he is hat miica worse off. How long win a flpfi»*i t0 ,reak Cherokee county with a fin loss every year of $100,000, with no Insurance? But the dispensa-v ga\e back to the county $14 023 68 it go ,WCam ? ° f « h " Carolina '"fw® any clt,z c , ‘ *n South foUs 11 ™ rich * r? The dispensary folks Maim not. They say it went StaTe 8 e ri£r P,e a” K< “ n,Ucky and othe whTkev U The Pmm 'suture of llhe destroyed for i (iie people of our own State hut .>t'h‘" y 8,a?e h . anC l’ d r '’ r " le """ids of ' O,o,, 1 ca ”dldly would pre. < r that the poor devils who rim far - ar^u^^^iuT.^ a pen d l< $ 1 oo ooo** 1 * ° nr pf ‘ OI ' ,e not to fo nves i a y< * ai for but value? In Hornethl "K of real the mos a t P »i7iaM r th ,® P,,b,lc school Is o thli Y ./ Jn ? f al1 ’ U amounts . , "bend a dollar for Honor ,7 schooling y ' AW Y ch,ld 4 cents worth i schooling. You spend $100 for liquor ami I’ll K ,v e your child $4 00 worth of schooling. How rich purse and how tough of stomach and f ner\es would a man have to be to ed ucate one child at that rate® Hoi many children will the average man kill or ruin for life before he geta oSe As a Financial Institution. There is little profit in discussing j whether liquor drinking and selling is or is not an evil in itself, or whether its use is sanctioned or forbidden by scriptural authority. These questions are solved usually by individual opin ion which is strengthened or modified by individual tastes, dispositions, in clinations, the weakness of the flesh and heredity. It is true, we find scriptural authority for the state ment that a good tree does not bear bad fruit, and the converse that we do not gather good fruit from a cor rupt tree, and generally that by their fruits ye shall know them. Where, therefore, we gather bad fruit, the tree may be classified as evil. If the fruits or results or tendencies of the dispensary are evils, then there is but one conclusion, that the dispensary is an evil. If its fruits are good then the institution is good. It matters not what the design of the framers of the law may have been. We have the test by which we as reasoning people may judge it. Its fruit indicates its character. The fact that it diminishes or has diminished some of the evils of the old barroom system by eliminating some of its worst features, does not give charac ter to the dispensary unless it be shown that it has eliminated all evil features. If a man be a violator of all the offences named in the Deca logue he is not a pure man because time or law, or some other influence, has lopped off all his sins except those set out in the first or tenth command ment. Nor does it follow that a rem edial agent is a cure. One drug may allay pain by its effects upon the ner vous system, but may not effect the cause of irritation. As before said, however, these are questions that must be settled by the individual conscience. There is another feature of the dis pensary law that rests upon facts susceptible of argument, and that is, that in cutting out the dispensary the county will lose profits amounting to about $13,000, which aids in reducing taxes, and helps to support the pub lic schools. This kind of argument is seductive, and the dispensary by this method makes its appeal to the peo ple as a financial institution. The county and the town get an income in the nature of profits from the dispen sary. An income in its ordinary sense means a profit arising from the investment of capital, whether that capital be property or brains. In this respect the dispensary differs from other sources of revenue. Assuming that the net profit from the dispensary and available to the public represents ten per cent, on sales—it may be more—then the peo ple of Cherokee county spend annu ally $130,000 for liquor, or about $6.00 for every man, woman and child. This, itself, leaving out every other consideration, is a heavy contribu tion to an institution which pays ten per cent, dividend, and which issues no paid up stock in any beneficial sense, and In which no surplus is ever accumulated for the benefit of the contributor; for In the end you have no more than in the beginning. Ninety per cent, of your contribution has gone somewhere. You have nothing to show for it that you would be willing to display to your neigh bors, or that you could put up as col lateral to secure the loan of one cent. Human reason declares this to he a poor investment. It is more like buy ing a barrel of flour on time to pawn for the loan of a quarter. The dispensary is not a generous institution, for It pays back only one- j tenth of the amount annually con- I tributed by the people for its support, : and that one-tenth does not represent any earning, but is only one-tenth of the money actually paid in. If It were a business proposition it would re serve for the people what they pay in. and pay them a dividend on earnings. | If it were a charitable or philanthrop ic institution it would not levy so heavy a tax for its own perpetuation, ami give such meager returns. It helps to run the county and the schools. So It does by collecting from the people $130,000, out of which $13,000 comes back and nothing re mains. $100,000 lost. Suppose this annual loss of one hundred thousand dollars should be contributed to schools, to the support of the county government, instead of to the dispen sary. There would he no necessity for taxation at all. Suppose it should be expended in feeding and clothing the women and children In those homes upon which this tax falls. In building comfortable homes, improv ing farms, or erecting houses. How long would it be before our county would be prosperous and her people happy? The estimate placed upon the amount of sales may be high, but a little calculation with the actual fig ures will show that the people of Cherokee are bearing an enormous burden for a small n venue, apart from which the only actual visible results are shattered nerves. Ill health, drunkenness and crime direct ly; barefooted and ill-clothed wives and children, wrecked homes, do mestic Infelicity, declining business, The Good Old Way. A severe cold or attack of la grippe is like a fire, the sooner you combat it the better your chances are to over power it. But few mothers in this age are willing to do the necessary 1 work required to give a good old-fash ioned reliable treatment such as would bo administered by their grand mothers, backed by Boschee’s Ger man Syrup, which was always liber ally u .*1 in connection with the home treatment of colds and is still in greater household favor than any known remedy. But even without the application of the old-fashioned aids German Syrup will cure a severe cold in quick time. It will cure colds In I children or grown people. It relieves , the congested organs, allays the irri tation, and effectively stops the cough. Any child will take it. It Is invaluable in a household of children. Trial size bottle, 25c; regular size, 75c. For sale by Cherokee Drug Co., Gaffney; L. D. Allison, Cowpens. There is just as much danger in the riches you desire as in those you possess. Physicians Endorse A-l-M. Dr. R. C. Johnson, Stringer, Miss., I have used Acid Iron in my practice for nearly 5 years. I have thoroughly experimented with it and find it has no equal as a Nervine, Blood Purifier, and I iver Medicine. Nothing sur passes it in the treatment of Indiges tion, Dyspepsia, Diarrhoea, Flux, Cu taneous Diseases, Chronic Diseases— especially of females. For Prolapsus and Irregular Menses nothing can compete with it. It stands as an an tidote against half the diseases of the human family. Trade A-I-M mark on each bottle. Sold by druggists. Acid Iron Mineral Co., Columbia, S. C. The senses are the windows of the soul. To Cure a Cough. The coughs so prevalent these days usually develop before you realize what has happened. Now the best thing to do is to take the most reliable cough cure you can get. None better than Murray’s Horehound Mullein and Tar. It is made of the purest ingredients and can be given to infants as well as grown people. Above all else IT CURES. You will find it at all druggists. 25c a bottle—extra large bottle. Election Notice. State of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. Whereas, a petition has been filed with me, as Supervisor, containing the names of one-fourth of the qualified electors of Cherokee county, as ap pears from the certificate of the Board of Supervisors of Registration of Cherokee county, which said pe tition is on file in this office, praying an election to be ordered by me, sub mitting the question of “Dispensary" or “No Dispensary” to the qualified electors of the county, and in pursu ance of an Act of the General Assem bly of the State of South Carolina, entitled “An Act to amend Section 7 of an Act Entitled ‘An Act to provide for the election of the State Board of Control, and to further regulate the sale, use, consumption, transportation and disposition of intoxicating and alcoholic liquors or liqids in this State, and prescribe further penalties for violation of the Dispensary Laws, and to police the same,’ approved March 6th, 1896,” said Act being approved on the 25th day of February, 1904; an election it hereby ordered to be held at the various precints in Cherokee county on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 1904, on the question of “Dispensary” or “No Dispensary,” said election to be conducted and managed by the same managers of the General Election, and those de siring to Vote to retain the Dispen sary will cast a ballot with the word “Dispensary” on their ballot, and those desiring to vote against and for the removal of the Dispensary, will cast a ballot with the words “No Dispensary,” on their ballot. Publish in Ledger, Oct. 11, 18, 25, Nov. 1. J. V. Whelchel, Supervisor of Cherokee County. Wedding Presents. The “marrying season" is on now, and of course that means “present time.” 1 have just received a hand some lot of Tax Natlca, The books for the collection of State, county and Load Tax will be open Oct. 15, 1904, to Dec. 31, 1904, during which time no penalty will be added. Those who prefer may pay In Janu- r.ry with 1 per cent, additional, or in February with 2 per cent, additional, or in March to the 15th of the month with 7 per cent, additional. After the 15th of March ixxiks are positively closed. Road tax may be paid during this time without penalty. Taxpayers owning property or pay ing taxes for others will please ask for tax receipts in each township in which property is owned. You must get a tax receipt for each township in which property L locat ed. Letters in reference Jo taxes must reach me not later than Dec. 26th. jg I can then furnish information in time to save you January penalty if your check, money order or registered letter reaches me by Dec. 31, 1904. For convenience of taxpayers, I will be at the following places on days named in schedule below: In office from Oct. 15th to Nov. 1st Buffalo, Tuesday, Nov. 1st, 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. Blacksburg, Tuesday, Nov. 1st, 3 p. m. Blacksburg, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Antioch, Thursday, Nov. 3, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. King’s Creek, Thursday, Nov. 3, 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. Cherokee Falls, Friday, Nov. 4th. In office Saturday, Nov. 5 and Mon day, Nov. 7th. Wilklnsville, Tuesday, 8th., 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Sarratts, Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. T. D. Littlejohn’s store Thursday, Nov. 10th, 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. Ravenna, Thursday, 10th, 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. , , White Plains, Friday, Nov. 11th, 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. In office, Saturday, Nov. 12th, Mon day Nov. 14th, Tuesday, Nov. 15th. Macedonia, Wednesday, 16th, 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. Ezells, Thursday, 17th, 8 a. m. to 1 p. m. In office, Saturday, Nov. 19th and Monday, Nov. 21st. Maud, Tuesday, 22nd, 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. t Grassy Pond, Tuesday, 22, 3 to 6 p. m. In office after this date. Poll tax is payable by every male citizen from 21 to 60 years except Confederate soldiers who do not pay after 50 years. qj Road tax is payable by every male* citizen from 18 to 50 years, except students while actually attending t^ny school or college of this State, school trustees during their term of office, school teachers employed In the pub lic schools and ministers in actual charge of congregations. W. Harry Gooding, Co. Tres. Rich Cut Glass any piece of whicli would delight the heart of a “blushing bride.” Come and inspect my line of Wedding Presents. Thos. H. Westrope. Full Line of Jewelry- RepairingBof all Kinds. Tbe Builders Supply Co. Successors to L. Baker. Will furnish you Building Material of the best that the markets afford and at the lowest living prices. No. 1 heart pine Shingles and Laths, and Devo’s cele brated Paints—guaranteed to go further and last longer than any other in the market. When in need of anything in the building line, call and see us; we’ll treat you courteously and mace your es timates for nothing. L-. Baker, Vloo-President and Managor. Master's Sale Real Estate. By virtue of a decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Spartanburg County, S. C., in tbe case of j. H. Sloan, as exe cutor, etc., plaintiff, vs. D. H. Sloan, et al., defendants, I will sell before the court house door at Gaffney, S. C., on salesuay in November next, at public auction, during the usual hours of sale, the following described real estate on the following terms: The one-half undivided interest in all that certain lot or parcel of land in the town of Gaffney, Cherokee County, S. C., fronting 53 feet on street, run ning back 176 feet and known as lot No. 43 on plat. Terms of sale one-half cash, balance on a credit of one year, with interest from day of sale, secured by bond of purchaser and mortgage of premises sold; purchaser to pay for papers and recording and to have the privilege of paying all cash. J. J. Burnett, Master for Spartanburg County, S. C. Oct 21, 28, Nov. 4. Clerk’s Sale. J Stale of South Carolina, County of Cherokee. L. A. Avery, as Assignee of John R. Webster, Executor. Plaintiff, vs. M. M. Tate, et al.. Defendants. In obedience to decrees herein, for fore closure, dated September Hth, isOH. and Octo ber 15th, 1MH. 1 will sell at Gaffney, 8. C„ In forc tbe court house door during the legal hours of sales, salesday. November 7tb, 1904, the following described property, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land lying and being In Draytonvllle Township. Cherokee County. State of South Caroiln *. being and known as the estate lands of M. M. Tate, de ceased. and formerly lands o5 Noah Webster deceased, (home place), and bounded, now or fcrmerly. by lands of H. A. Tate. Wm. Jef feries, T. H. Littlejohn, estate lands of Dr Wiley Littlejohn, deceased, J. E. Jefferies, G. W. & Nannie Webster, the Curtis or Dawkins lands, and Thickety creek, containing three hundred and fifty-three (353) acres, more or less, excepting, however, fourteen and one- fourth (W'-4) acres thereof, conveyed by M M. Tate to Dr. T. O. Tate by deed dated 3rd day of December. 1900, and recorded In the Clerk's office In Deed Hook E. Page 36, and further, excepting the lot of land heretofore conveyed by said M. M. Tate to the trusteee, Wm. Jefferies. C. A Spencer, & E. L. Tate, of the public free schools of that district containing one acre, more or less, and where on said school building Is located. A plat of said land, and fuller description thereof may be seen on day of sale. TERMS OF SALK: Cash. Purchaser !> pay for all papers. J. Eb. Jefferies. LTk. 0. C. Pis. J. E. Webster, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Pub. Get. 21, & and Nov. 4. 1«04. Estate Notice. All persons bolding cft|nis against the 4 late of M. M. Tate, diwased, are res 4 u os ted to file the same, properly proven, In tbe office of the Probate Judge of this county before December 1st next. Annie E. Cate, A. O. Tat^ ' O. W. Tate, Oct. iNth, 1M)4, Administrators Pub. In Gaffney Ledger, Oct. 21, SB and Nor. 4th, 1904. . ..Mi. .